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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime. It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany. It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America.
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A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, runs away from tear gas in front of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico. (📷: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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Myrna Lim
@Myrnastwit
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@AOC
What kind of parent would drag their children thousands of miles without shoes and only wearing pampers? No parent would. This is a photo shoot for an intended impact.
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Angel
@Angelux1111
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@weact2
How quickly countless Americans forget they owe their citizenship to “a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.” How will we extend this welcome to these newest of exiles?
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Renee Gaudreau
@Rv_renee
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@thugkitchen
Rushing the US border is " not asking to he considered a refugee" @Ocasio2018 so quit it w/ your dishonest statement. Regardless of what Country an individual is coming from and from what entry point in the US, they must follow the legal process. We welcome LEGAL immigration 🇺🇸
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Sneakers1957 🌵🏴‍☠️
@sneakers1957
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@AOC
I’m typing slow so maybe you can understand: asking to be considered & applying is not a crime. The problem is THEY ARE NOT ASKING!I have no problem with immigrants ready to walk in the front door & follow the rules. It’s those breaking every back door & window that are a prob
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David Webb
@davidwebbshow
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@AOC
If socialism is so great why aren’t they headed to #Venezuela. When are you going to the border to pick out your family to care for? You now make $174,000 a year plus your congressional office budget. BTW, we the taxpayers are paying you so not even your money.
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Gerald D. W. North
@RealGeraldNorth
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You don't know U.S. history, Rep, Ocasio-Cortez. The U.S. turned away thousands of Jewish refugees in WWII, ostensibly fearing there were Nazi spies among them. E..g, in June 1939, 937 were turned away at the port of Miami. More than one quarter of them died in the Holocaust.
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